Iomart Upgrades 300,000 Email Accounts Using Open-Xchange

Iomart Group, U.K. managed cloud services provider, announced today that it would use Open-Xchange to upgrade 300,000 email accounts.

With a successful pilot project completed, the Iomart Group announces today that it will migrate 300,000 customer e-mail accounts to the Open-Xchange e-mail and collaboration platform. The announcement also stated Iomart’s customers will be able to upgrade to advanced groupware features and mobility support in Open-Xchange.

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iomart Group is one of the U.K.‘s largest providers of managed hosting and cloud services. Serving every level of business from SME (small- and medium enterprise) to large corporate , trading through its iomart Hosting, Easyspace, RapidSwitch and Titan Internet brands, the Group currently manages hosting services for more than 300,000 customers daily. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market (AIM).

Open-Xchange integrates e-mail, calendar, contact and task management with advanced groupware features such as information management and document sharing, along with cutting-edge social network integration. By adding the Open-Xchange mobility support option, users can receive push e-mail and synchronization of contacts, calendar and other information from their Open-Xchange account to their smartphones, including Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Nokia, Windows Mobile and others.

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More information on Iomart Group email migration can be found on the Open-Xchange website

Groupware vendor Open-Xchange and Linux distributor Univention have exhibited a product based on their cooperative effort at the SYSTEMS 2008 trade fair in Munich: the combined Open-Xchange and Univention Corporate Server (UCS) 2.1.